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Squawk Box

With Doug Johnston

Fill-er-up

If you are old enough to re-

member when gasoline was 25

cents a gallon, or less, you can

surely remember when a tank of

gas came with an attendant

putting the gas in your car,

washing your windshield, and

even checking the air pressure in your tires.

And, oh yes, if you needed air in a tire they

put it in for you at no charge. Gas stations in

those days were family businesses.

In Inverness during the 1950’s we had an

AMOCO Station owned and operated by

Wallace Cooper with the help of his wife

Claire, daughter Libby, and sons John Wallace

and Charles. That station was sandwiched

between the Masonic Building and the old

Inverness Post Office. If you pulled into that

Corvettes from the Citrus County Corvette Club will once again be part of Dunnellon’s Hot Summer Night Community Celebration on August

station for gas, Mr. Cooper, or one of his chil-

Levy County On Alert For

16th. See full story on page 5.

dren would pump your gas and give your car

Two Dunnellon

a makeover in a matter of minutes. Mr. Cooper

also sold block ice and if asked he would store

Distemper Outbreak

a watermelon for good customers in his ice

Men Busted for

house behind the station.

Inverness also had a Pure Oil station just

"Low Cost Vaccine Clinic," August 16

eyes. Initial respiratory symptoms can

Air Conditioner

south of the old courthouse. Hugh Stephens

progress to pneumonia and seizures, and pup-

The canine viral disease, distemper,

operated that business for years and even

pies are more likely to die from distemper than

has killed several puppies and dogs in Levy

though he had suffered a stroke and had some

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adult dogs. "It can infect dogs of all ages, if

County and has prompted veterinarians and

difficulty walking he pumped gas for his cus-

the dogs have not built up any immunity, ei-

county officials to urge residents to vacci-

tomers. His wife, Bea, was at the station often

ther through vacination, which is preferable,

nate their dogs and not let them run free.

Two youths were arrested by the

as was their daughter Lynnette.

or by prior exposure,"said Crawford. "The

Levy County Animal Services has

Citrus County Sheriff's

Inverness also had a Sinclair Station just

population that suffers the most serious dis-

received some of the infected animals, which

Office, August 5, in rela-

across the courthouse US Highway 41, a Gulf

ease is puppies, particularly those two to six

were adopted by the public, either from the

tion to an undercover in-

Oil Station across from Inverness City Hall

months of age." The animals tested at UF have

shelter or a local rescue group. The county

vestigation involving

and a Standard Oil Station across from the

been up to 2 years old.

shelter is not the source of the outbreak. As

several metal recycling

Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box

David Weatherford, Director of Levy

many animals in the county are not being vac-

businesses on Hwy. 44 in

Adopt A

County Animal Services, urged residents to

cinated, infected dogs brought in to the ken-

Crystal River.

have their dogs vaccinated and also to pre-

nels are infecting the other dogs.

According to an

vent them from roaming freely. He also said

University of Florida (UF) veterinary

Pet

arrest report, records at a

that spaying and neutering dogs will help pre-

professor Cynda Crawford is working with

recycling business on En-

vent the spread of distemper by preventing

Animal Services on the distemper outbreak.

terprise Pt. in Crystal

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births.

"Distemper has a very long incubation pe-

River showed that a 16- John F. BuntsIII

Levy County Animal Services will

riod," said Crawford, "up to thirty days. Most

year-old youth had re-

host a Low Cost Vaccine Clinic on Saturday,

of the animals that come to the shelter stay

cycled materials during July, and each trans-

August 16, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. at the animal

on average of twelve days. They may look

action had coincided with the theft of air con-

shelter, which is located at 12055 N.E. 69th

healthy to us, and then ultimately, the signs

ditioning units within Citrus County.

Lane in Bronson (at the Levy County Landfill

and symptoms will appear."

The juvenile told a detective that 19-

Compound). For additional information, please

Crawford explained that distemper is

year-old Frederick John Bunts III, Dunnellon,

contact the shelter at (352) 486-5138. Read

a respiratory viral disease, spread through se-

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